When he arrived at the Treasure Pavilion, Xiao Ji bought a set of jewelry for each of his three daughters, and then he took people back with satisfaction.

Not long after returning to Qingfeng Garden, Luwu also returned from outside.

Mama Zhao went to Ziwei Courtyard in the name of borrowing tricks.

As soon as Luwu entered, he reflexively closed the door.

"Miss, Mrs. Zhu and Zhu Gongzi have already returned to the inn, and when the slave maid sent them back, they heard that the guys at the inn were about to ask them for the room fee, so the slave and maid made their own decisions and secretly paid them for three days."

"You're doing a great job."

Tong Jiayan poured her a cup of tea, and Lu Wu hurriedly took it.

"It's good for the slave to come by herself."

She took two sips, and then continued: "They live in a third-class room, but the price of the third-class room is not low, and the slave maid thinks ......" She hesitated a little, not too embarrassed to casually evaluate the situation of others, "Just to pay the room fee, Zhu Gongzi and they are already a little stretched." "Not to mention that we still have to eat, and Zhu's mother still needs to take medicine.

Tong Jiayan nodded, she had already thought of these.

When she heard the words "Master Ma and Zhu Gongzi" on the street, she paused and felt a little familiar, as if she had heard it somewhere. After carefully searching through my memory, I remembered who this Zhu Gongzi was.

In the twenty-seventh year of Yonghe, a dark horse came out of the spring, amazed the court with a song "The Wealth of Nations", won the first place in the palace examination, and was appointed as the champion by the current saint, and was directly promoted to the Zhan Shifu, in charge of the internal and external affairs of the East Palace, and became a close minister of the Son of Heaven.

The name Zhu Wencai instantly spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and Jinling City, which is adjacent to the capital, is even more lively because of the three words Zhu Wencai.

Mrs. Ma set up a banquet and invited guests, and kept talking about the marriage of the children of Miss Ma and the current champion Zhu Wencai, and the words had already put up the old man's money, and Miss Ma even nodded shyly when the ladies asked whether she really had a marriage contract with the current champion.

I thought that the new champion would marry a beautiful wife when he became famous, and he was even more happy. How do you know that the people of Jinling City have been waiting for a few days, but they have not been able to wait for the imaginary grand wedding banquet, but what they are waiting for is the news that Zhuangyuanlang came to retire.

Mafu lost face even more and became a joke in the entire Jinling.

But the strange thing is that Master Ma seemed to have completely forgotten about this matter afterwards, not only did he not pursue Zhu Wencai to the outside world, but he also closed his mouth uncharacteristically, and did not allow everyone in Ma Mansion to mention this matter again.

After that, Zhu Wencai never came back to Jinling.

Later, because of Ning Zhi, Tong Jiayan was able to meet the legendary champion Lang in the capital.

At that time, Zhu Wencai had become a young Zhan Shi in the Zhan Mansion, and the official worship was the fourth grade, and he became a sweet spot in the eyes of several princes.

Zhu Mu's health deteriorated, Zhu Wencai sought medical treatment everywhere, and finally through Gu Yi, he found Ning Zhi here.

Ning Zhi didn't agree, but after a night, he took her directly to live in Zhu's house, specifically for Zhu's mother to recuperate, for more than a month.

Although Zhu Wencai is an official worshipper, the life of the Zhu family is still poor.

The house was given by the saint back then, two in and two out. There are few people in the house, and there is only one maid who is responsible for taking care of Zhu's mother, named Cui'er.

She has seen many noble families and wealthy squires have sent worship posts, wanting to make friends with Zhu Wencai, and she has also seen some princes' staff secretly send people to send gifts to Zhu Wencai to show goodwill, but these exchanges of affection were all rejected by him one by one, and all the gifts brought by the visit were also returned by him intact.

People in the officialdom privately commented that this Zhu Shaozhan is the most brainless, he doesn't know how to be flexible, and he is a hard bone who doesn't eat hard and soft.

Ning Zhi admired Zhu Wencai very much, saying that he was a person with integrity.

Since the former crown prince Rong Xuan was deposed, the East Palace has no owner, and the princes' parties are eyeing each other, and they all have their eyes on the Zhan Shifu who is in charge of the internal affairs of the East Palace.

It's just that Zhu Wen is an out-and-out royalist, indifferent to the courtship of the palaces, and is loyal to the saint.

Tong Jiayan once met him alone in the garden of the Zhu family.

She was still wearing a curtain fence on her head at the time, and Zhu Wencai was stunned when he saw her, and then immediately turned around, turned sideways to face her, and looked ahead from a distance, his gaze was straight, without any tilt.

The path was narrow, and he let her go first.

He is a very polite person.

Ning Zhi talked about him and commented on a paragraph: "For Jiangshan Sheji, the more people like him, the better." But for his other half, in this hierarchical dynasty, marrying such a 'stubborn' person is destined to be very hard. ”

She was on the sidelines, just smiling.

After Ning Zhi finished speaking, he turned his head to look at her, with a worried look: "Ah Yan, if you want to marry, marry an ordinary person with a simple family relationship, it doesn't matter if you are poor, only if he can really love you and protect you, I can make money anyway." After thinking about it, he quickly shook his head, "The social status of ordinary people seems to be a little lower, and the risk factor of your life when you marry is high. Alas, forget it, I don't worry about who you marry, don't get married, I'll raise you. ”

She pursed her lips and looked at Ning Zhi and smirked.

She wanted to tell him that she had no intention of getting married. She just wanted to stay by his side all the time, to be with him, and that she wouldn't go anywhere as long as he agreed.

But because of shyness, she couldn't get it out.

Tong Jiayan lowered his eyes and hid the faint nostalgia flowing from the bottom of his eyes.

"I remember...... My mother's dowry is in charge of my father? She asked aloud.

Luwu nodded: "Yes." ”

After Daji's death, Mrs. Tong wanted to take over her dowry, but she only mentioned it to Tong Changqing, and was interrupted by him expressionlessly.

"I have promised Rou'er that her dowry will be all left to Sister Yan. Before she and her sideburns, I will take care of it for her. I don't have to worry about my mother about this. ”

At that time, Mrs. Tong fainted.

"Listen, listen, that's how he talks to me?! I'm a man! I have a good heart, but I was so spoiled by him! Did he think I was going to get his daughter-in-law's broken dowry?! They are so wary of me?! Old Mrs. Tong was so angry that her chest rose and fell.

"You dissipate your anger, you dissipate your anger." Mama Fang comforted Mrs. Tong while smoothing her back and said, "The third master didn't mean that, he just promised the third lady in advance, and he couldn't break his trust with the third lady." You are the biological mother of the third master, this is a fact that no one can change, how can the third master be wary of disobeying his biological mother? Do you say? ”

After hearing this, Mrs. Tong felt justified, so she remembered her anger and hatred on the deceased Daji monk and young Tong Jiayan.